Composer: Ahmed Adnan Saygun
Performer: Quatuor Danel
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: CPO
Catalogue: 9999232
Release: 2006
Size: 419 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
CD 01
String Quartet No. 1
01. I. Allegro moderato
02. II. Adagio
03. III. Allegretto
04. IV. Grave – Allegro assai
String Quartet No. 2, Op. 35
05. I. Cupo
06. II. Moderato
07. III. Allegretto
08. IV. Grave
CD 02
String Quartet No. 3, Op. 43
01. I. Grave
02. II. Lento
03. III. Agitato
String Quartet No. 4
04. I. Lento
05. II. Animato
Saygun clearly viewed the form from an anti-Romantic perspective with potentially ‘colourful’ native elements transmuted into a sophisticated, dissonant, increasingly abstract idiom. The composer would surely have been delighted by these performances.